Sentence examples for woefully long from inspiring English sources

His points about the uselessness of leafleting as a publicity tool, the crippling expenses involved in taking a show to Edinburgh and the woefully long odds of success were all fair ones.

And again in the seventh game of the third set Cilic sent a forehand woefully long to hand Djokovic the initiative again as the Croat's coach, Goran Ivanisevic, ruefully shook his head.

The notion of buying and resurrecting a beloved brand can be appealing across product categories, as reflected by the current bidding dance for Hostess or the woefully long ordeal of Saab, which was sold to Chinese and Japanese investors last year.

They will remain woefully inadequate so long as European countries resist expansion, whether through borrowing from reserve-rich countries such as China, Germany and Japan, or big increases in fund quotas and allocations of special drawing rights.

"Hi Euan, can you please justify why bonuses are paid when the bank is making a loss?" "It's worse than it seems... these are retention bonuses, so Euan can perform woefully, but as long as he stays put he will get it.

But this may well be unavoidable in a part of the world where bewildering social change, including extremely rapid population growth and urbanisation, for so long went woefully unmatched by any evolution in politics.

But a smaller concession on tax expenditures might be worth making to get a deal that marries tax reform to some real (if, in the long run, woefully insufficient) entitlement cuts.

Yet, as a journalist who has written extensively on IVF and donor conception, I have seen first hand how sperm donation laws in Australia have for a long time been woefully inadequate, leading to untold heartache for both donors and donor recipients.

He won the 14th with a par when Woodland left a long birdie attempted woefully short.

Well, everything turned out fine, as Van Gundy made the wise calls down the stretch, letting Sprewell and Houston take the game from Carter and Tracy McGrady, who are long on talent and woefully short on shot selection.

For those of you not familiar with the Mazda Miata, it's a two-seater convertible that's long on fun and woefully short on trunk space.